Company's Garden

When Jan van Riebeeck came ashore at the Cape of Good Hope to set up a trading post, he also wanted a large shipyard where ships could be repared before heading back to Holland. Soon he discovered that these ships needed more than just a repare. For that reason he orderd the Company's Garden to be built.

In the early years of the Company's Garden, they were small and could just provide what was needed. But the Gardens slowly grew to a magnificent complex with several important building, including one of the most important and best known buildings in South Africa: The Tuynhuis (a house built in Dutch style in 1751), still in use.